http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/ Engadget Comments for NASA's newest e-nose for ISS thinks you're wearing too much cologne http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/
First thing I thought of.]]>Nov 21st 2008 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Farnsworth: No, I remembered that I'd built one last year. Go ahead, try it. You'll find that every heavenly body has its own particular scent. Here, I'll point it at Jupiter.
Fry: Smells like strawberries.
Farnsworth: Exactly. And now, Saturn.
Fry: Pine needles. Oh, man, this is great... hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus.
Leela: I don't get it.
Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Farnsworth: Urrectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Fry: No, no, I, I think I'll just smell around a bit over here.
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So, can it smell something that has a greater ratio than 10,000 parts per million?? Does it make sense that it can't smell that? I haven't any idea...]]>Nov 21st 2008 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/ 10,000ppm would be pretty damn readily smellable anyway]]>Nov 21st 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/
*** - much more sensitive than* human honkers.]]>Nov 21st 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/
I mean, white housing and rounded corners and edges? Wow.]]>Nov 21st 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 22nd 2008 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/

This is why *I* am not an astronaut. ]]>Nov 21st 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 21st 2008 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/Nov 23rd 2008 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nasas-newest-e-nose-for-iss-thinks-youre-wearing-too-much-colo/
"This technology demonstration will provide important information for environmental control and life-support system designers for the future lunar outpost.""

"Specifically, the shoebox-sized ENose contains an array of 32 sensors that can identify and quantify several organic and inorganic chemicals, including organic solvents and marker chemicals that signal the start of electrical fires"

"Air-quality problems have occurred before on the International Space Station, space shuttle and Russian Space Station Mir. In most cases, the chemicals were identified only after the crew had been exposed to them, if at all."

"The instrument can analyze volatile aerosols and vapors, help monitor cleanup of chemical spills or leaks, and enable more intensive chemical analysis by collecting raw data and streaming it to a computer at JPL's ENose laboratory. The instrument has a wide range of chemical sensitivity, from fractional parts per million to 10,000 parts per million."

"It can detect chemicals that people find odorless. It doesn't suffer from "odor fatigue," the human tendency to grow accustomed and insensitive to smells that start small and increase gradually"

Last one suited for some comments ;)
"Currently it can identify alcohols and aromatics, the two groups that include most of what is likely to present a problem aboard the ISS"

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